West Bengal to bring back pass-fail system in classes 5, 8

kolkata: abolishing the no-detention policy, the west bengal government has decided to bring back the 'pass-fail' system in classes five and eight from the next academic session, education minister partha chatterjee said on thursday.    a notification in this regard will be issued soon, chatterjee told.    "this is in conformity with recommendations of the ministry of human resources development to bring back the pass-fail system in classes 5 and 8. students would have to pass examinations to be promoted to classes 6 and 9 from the next academic session," he said.    the no-detention policy till class 8 had been adopted by west bengal government in 2010 amid protests from a section of teachers who felt that it would produce poor quality students.    west bengal was among most of the states that had earlier mooted revoking the no-detention policy by the centre but the mhrd left it to the respective state governments to decide.